Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

Fail early, fail often.

Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure.

What we are is not all that we may become.

The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.